Happy Homemaker 2026-09-28

Good morning, a cool 12C here this morning

Last Wednesday ds dropped off grandkids at 7:00 pm as he was leaving early with ddil next morning (she was going out of town for work and to pick up their new-to-them car) and he was working in town.  

Grandkids slept here and grandpa took them to bus stop on Thursday.  After school dh picked them up and they had supper here.  I went with Anne-E to her dance class where ds met us to pick up grandkids but Xavier wanted to spend another night here so he stayed.  

Friday they had a pedagogical day and I had taken a day off (had some sick days to take).  Xavier spent most of the day here; he did go home for 2 hours with dh who went to mow the lawn, so he played with his sister - ds was in telework.  Anne-E wanted to stay home to see her mom when she got back but Xavier came back here.  He loves the ipad but I'm don't agree with him spending lots of time on it so have to keep him busy which means I did nothing on the homefront but we played cards, colored, painted, took a walk, looked for bugs.  He said he wanted to stay another night but it was Hockey pool night with his dad (at one of our neighbor's house), so off he went with his dad.  He came twice in the evening and told him no later than 9:30 to come back and go to bed because he had hockey practice Saturday.  He finally decided to go back home with his dad.

Saturday we all went to his hockey practice and then we all headed to dd's (2 hour away).  Had lunch there and in the afternoon we all went to local Fête with carrousel and rides for a few hours.  DS and family stayed for supper but we left around 6:00 pm and had supper on our way home.  Was nice to have all family together.

Sunday dh worked at the polls - anticipation vote from 8:30 and got back home 8:45 pm.  I spent whole day in housechores.

Today dh is working at polls again so more housechores for me (yay! ;) ) and I do have some paperwork to do.

Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom 

Weather this week

Mon

13°

11°

Tue

15°

10°

Wed

16°

10°

Thu

18°

13°

Fri

18°

7°

Sat

17°

7°

Sun

13°

7°

Looking around the house

Warm and cozy, just fine.  I need to make it guest-ready for our Thanksgiving in 2 weeks (Oct. 12).

Thinking and pondering

Need to work on my procrastination list, starting with retirement date and meeting financial cousellor - still to do ;) still procrastinating... told dh to get me an appointment for asap - still waiting for appointment but will prep the papers this afternoon (hopefully)

Photographer confirmed date of Oct 12 for the family but time and place to be confirmed the day before.

TV this week

• Big brother
• Rewatching the old Dexter series (season 6)
• MasterChef saison 4
• Les armes
• Belle-fleur (saison 2)
• Stats (saison 5)
• Indéfendable
• Anti-gang
• Dumas
• Big brother - le piège
• .... and lots more

Interesting blog I saw this week

Nothing.

On my reading pile

L'été des aurevoirs - Les demoiselles d'Oxford T3 - Rosie Clarke

On my to-do list

Sunday

• Vac main floor
• Wash main bathroom
• Wash oven
• Deep-clean 1 basement bedroom (walls, ceiling, woodwork, window, curtains, light fixture, furniture, floor) - only closet left to do at a later time
• Mop high-traffic areas
• 
  

Monday

• Post here - DONE
• Prep for in-town work tomorrow 
• Deep-clean 2nd basement bedroom
• Prep papers to meet financial advisor
• 
  

Decluttering

• 3 bracelets
• 3 sets of earrings
• 8 necklaces
• 3 sweaters
• 5 pairs of pants
• 1 sports bra
• 1 bag of mixed pieces of earrings and beads

Simple pleasure

Cool nights.  Getting house ready for winter.

Upcoming this week

Tuesday - in-town work 

Helping out with grandkids as they only have 1 car this week and ds has to work in town a few days.  DDIL will be going out of town Thursday and Friday for work and to pick up new car.

From the camera

I can't download the little videos, not working

Web picture of the week